Participant Biographies

Panelists

Prof. Russell A. Berman is the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he co-directs the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. He previously served as Senior Advisor on the Policy Planning Staff of the United States Department of State and as a Commissioner on the Commission on Inalienable Rights. He is currently a member of the National Humanities Council. He is the Editor Emeritus of Telos and President of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute.

He received his B.A. from Harvard (1972) and his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis (1979). He has been awarded a Mellon Faculty Fellowship at Harvard, an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Berlin, and the Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany. His books include The Rise of the Modern German Novel: Crisis and Charisma (1988) and Enlightenment or Empire: Colonial Discourse in German Culture (1998), both of which won the Outstanding Book Award of the German Studies Association. Other books include Anti-Americanism in Europe: A Cultural Problem (2004), Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty, and Western Culture (2007) and Freedom or Terror: Europe Faces Jihad (2010). He has also edited translations of volumes by Ernst Jünger and Carl Schmitt. In his books and articles, Berman has written widely on the cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, critical theory, and cultural dimensions of transatlantic relations, as well as on topics between Europe and the Middle East. He served as the 2011 President of the Modern Language Association.

Dr. Gadi Taub is a Senior Lecturer at the Federmann School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a Ph.D. in American History from Rutgers University. Having been canceled not long ago by Haaretz—his popular column shuttered because he supported judicial reform in Israel—Taub now writes a regular column for Tablet. His non-fiction books include the bestselling A Dispirited Rebellion: Essays on Contemporary Israeli Culture (Hebrew), What Is Zionism? (Hebrew), The Settlers and the Struggle over the Meaning of Zionism (Yale University Press, 2010), and, more recently, Global Elites and National Citizens in Israel, the U.S., and the West (Hebrew). His bestselling novel Allenby St. was adapted as a prime-time TV drama series, which he created and co-wrote. He hosts Israel’s leading Hebrew conservative podcast, Gate Keeper, and co-hosts (with Michael Doran) the English language podcast Israel Update.

Respondent

Paulina Neuding is a prominent journalist and political commentator in Sweden. Formerly editor-in-chief of Neo and Kvartal, and formerly the European editor at Quillette, she currently writes for Svenska Dagbladet. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico, the Spectator, the Jerusalem Post, Le Monde, Gazeta Wyborcza, Die Welt, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and many other international publications.

Moderator and Host

Our panel’s moderator is Gabriel Noah Brahm (aka Gabi Abramovich). Brahm is Director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute’s Israel Initiative, Professor of English and World Literature at Northern Michigan University, and Visiting Researcher in Political Science at Tel Aviv University. A frequent contributor to The American Mind, Fathom, Perspectives on Political Science, Society, and Telos, he is co-editor, with Cary Nelson, of The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel (2014). He received his B.A. from UCLA and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. As a dual Israeli-American citizen, he has double, not dual loyalties. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @Brahmski.